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Founded in 1963, the University of Massachusetts Press publishes scholarship, literature, and books for general readers that reflect the quality and diversity of intellectual life on UMass campuses, in their region, and around the world. UMass Press has sold more than 2,000,000 volumes since its inception, and currently has over 1,400 titles in print.

In recent years, the Press has focused primarily on books in the field of American studies broadly defined—books that explore the history, politics, literature, culture, and environment of the United States—as well as works with a transnational perspective. In addition to publishing works of scholarship, the Press produces books of more general interest for a wider readership and launched its regional trade imprint, Bright Leaf in 2017.

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The Battle for the Mind

War and Peace in the Era of Mass Communication

By Gary S. Messinger

University of Massachusetts Press

War and Peace in the Era of Mass Communication

On Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture

Shaker Women and Equality of the Sexes

Critical Essays

Practicing Democracy in Rural New England

Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony

Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio

Appropriations of Emerson, 1880-1950

Monarch of Perception

Stories

A Renaissance Man in the Gilded Age

Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library

The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America

Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance

Essays on Literature, Race, and National Identity in Antillean America

The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America

One Town's Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918

A Cultural Biography

How Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century

Race, Nostalgia, and Vocal Harmony

Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870

Johnny Cash and American Culture

Voices and Visions

Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream

Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin

An Irish-American Memoir

Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture

Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier

Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America

Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic

War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal

Books and the Popularization of Knowledge

Aesthetics and Survival

Stories

Poems

A Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840-1916

Retracing a Life Erased

A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861

The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts

Americans Face the Atomic Age

Typography and Literary Interpretation

Americans and African Development in the 1960s

The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush

The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century

Hunting in Contemporary Vermont

Tradition and the Critique of Modernity

East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640